CLINTONS SABOTAGING THE 2004 DEMOCRATS
For those curious about what's going on with the political spin for Hillary in Sydney Blumenthal's book, Dick Morris has the scoop.Hillary’s own book is due out next month. The platitudes that are likely to festoon the former First Lady/presidential wanabee’s book are not the real Hillary: Sidney's book is her true voice. In a world in which ghostwriters assist celebrity authors in their memoirs, this book is an odd role reversal. Here, Hillary is the ghost putting her prejudices, animosities, biases, resentments, fulminations, and paranoid mutterings in Sidney's mouth.
Hillary needed someone to affirm her credentials as a New York Yankee fan, so Blumenthal obliged. She wanted a benign description of her acceptance of the need to have a special prosecutor, so his book portrays her as philosophically accepting it. (By contrast, both George Stephanopoulous and I recall her obstinate refusal and tearful ranting against the appointment.) Mrs. Clinton needed to affirm that she was the author of It Takes A Village so Blumenthal attests to it, despite the fact that her ghost writer was paid $120,000. Hillary wants to grab some undeserved credit for the Irish peace process, so Blumenthal obligingly informs us that her "work" made it all possible.
Anything that needs doing, Blumenthal does in this book, like he did in the White House. This 800-page job application for a job in a Hillary White House shows his willingness to buy any line she hands out and treats it as gospel.
That book is now followed by Bill Clinton's transparent comments about America needing to allow more than two terms per President. His timing and comment is a finger in the face of Susan Estrich. The Clintons are not going to get out of the way, period. With Hillary's "history" book coming out in two weeks, they're determined to prevent a non-Clinton Democrat from winning the Presidency in 2004 if Hillary chooses not to run.
The Clintons don't want an incumbent Democrat running for re-election in 2008. They want to make it very clear to all pretenders to the throne that "The Family" is the only choice for Democrats in the next election (when Bush is prevented from serving three consecutive terms). If Hillary is unelectable then, they want to make sure Bill can run again in 2008 or 2012. The third choice for him will be to get the UN rules changed to allow him to be the UN Secretary General.
UPDATE:
Hugh Hewitt has another option for Bill -- Governor of California.
On-air tonight I began to wonder what would happen if Bill Clinton declared residency in California and accepted an invitation from a united Democratic party to serve as the “back-up” to Gray Davis when the recall vote is held out here in the fall. There will be a vote, and if 50% plus one of the voters says throw the bum out, Davis will be recalled. On the very same ballot will appear a list of possible replacements. The largest vote getter among them gets to be the new Governor. Clinton would win such a poll in a walk, I think. Does he have the brass to do it?
More details on the 2004 strategy from Dick Morris -- 'Clintons Want Bush Re-elected'